Boris Pasternak Quotes

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences. ...more

Birth: February 10, 1890 - Death: May 30, 1960

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

Topic(s): People , Inspirational , Life

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Topic(s): Writing , Matter , Fall

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

Topic(s): Made , Artist , Discovery

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Topic(s): Whole , Life Is , Symbolic

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently

Topic(s): Break , Solitary , Doctor Zhivago

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Topic(s): Men , Adventure , Mad

We must discover security within ourselves.

Topic(s): Security , Anticipation

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people’s songs.

Topic(s): People , Earth , Song

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Topic(s): Men , Myth , Anxious

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Topic(s): Moments , Abandoned , Isolation

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

Topic(s): Love You

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